“Every kiss is joyful. Every kiss is gay” is the title of the campaign that ex-BBB Jean Wyllys is promoting on his website blog to pressure TV Globo for a kiss between Bernardinho (Thiago Mendonça) and Carlão (Lugui Palhares) in “Duas Caras”.
In the post, Wyllys writes that “for the good of homosexuals, soap opera authors, especially those on TV Globo, have long been making efforts to show, in their plots, new representations of gays and lesbians, which, however little it may be, , contributes to overturning stereotypes and showing the masses that homosexuals are as diverse as heterosexuals”.
The journalist and writer also remembers the homosexual characters who were featured in the network's soap operas. “It is impossible not to recognize that characters like Políbio, from Partido Alto; Adamastor, of Stone upon stone; the madam Zenilda and her friend Vieira, from A indomada; the esoteric Uálber and his hilarious colleague Edilberto, from Suave Venom; the carnival artist Ubiraci and the lesbian couple Jennifer and Leonora, from Senhora do Destino – only to be found in soap operas by the great Aguinaldo Silva – contributed to raising the self-esteem of gays and lesbians and to showing them as diverse and human as any person,” he writes.
Jean makes a point of emphasizing that the kiss cannot be “staged, stolen and rejected”. “There is a lack of a 'kiss between equals' that is passionate, happy, gay, that is, full of love”, says the ex-BBB, who also criticizes society's hypocrisy. “Now, why not call the display of bullet-riddled bodies of black favela dwellers on the cover of afternoon tabloids 'obscene'?” he asks.
Although TV Globo had announced that it would show the long-awaited kiss scene, yesterday it reversed itself and reported that it will not even be recorded. Among the broadcaster's arguments for not showing what would be the first homosexual kiss on Brazilian television is that its “Principles of Quality” do not include “caresses and kisses between homosexuals”. Point for hypocrisy.
